Bko mods - mainly road vehicles, occasionally other stuff

Hello all,

Helicopters aren’t available as a vehicle type, never-the-less I’m trying to see to what extend I can get some helicopters operational for my lay-outs. Using the airVehichle type and some deliberately misaligned pivots for the rotors the vehicle is moving quite decent. It doesn’t do vertical take-off nor landing and sticks to airplane flight patterns, but using the close/open-all-doors events I set it to lower upon dock arrival and raise for departure. In modeleditor the crew doesn’t move with these animations, and in game they are hardly visible (probably due to the materials used?) so that is yet something to improve. Also on the rear rotor I needed to be creative as that didn’t want to move ánd rotate properly in combination with the doors open/close events moving the entire vehicle. Now I’m using actually two rotors and let the appear/disappear (=scale to zero) with the doors animations. I tried creating a ‘forever’ animation for the rotation but that didn’t look right.

Let me know what your think of this so far and all advise, tips&tricks are welcome.

Regards, Gruss,

Bko/dview

Unfortunately the videos of the chopter in operation were too big to upload

Thank you all,

The Huey is still a work in progress as I'm exploring the modding still.

A short update on the Huey is that it's now heading for the repairshop, so it's loaded onto a flatbed and on the road instead of in the air. Moving vertical isn't an issue at the moment ;).

The flatbed is pulled by a Kenwort K100 that I based on a downloaded model. The trailer I created myself based on drawings of a Nooteboom Manoovr 5 axle flatbed (mpl85-05).

The axles of the trailer are all based on the same mesh, is it better to have a seperate mesh for each, like I've done for the truck where the rear axles are two seperate meshes?

In game both move as expected. The trailer axles aren't steering, without the trailer is moving better actually. For the extended version I''ll see if I can make that work. Advise is welcome.

First I'll need to look after the in-game dimensions, compared to a standard game truck my combination is a bit too large, as that will also apply to my other models, first thing to find is what exact math I can apply consistently.

Some screenshots of my progress, for the trailer there are 4 variants; empty (has 2 axles raised), an extended version, one with an extra 3.5m heavy load bed and of course the one loaded with the helicopter.

Cheers, Gruss

Thanks @BA

I'm using SM1ausHOT 's mod to set the scale now, scaled down to 87% the trailer fits his MN16 truck fairly well;

Oh that is indeed PeterLustig.

Hello all,

I'm still exploring possibilities and getting familiar with the .lua code.

For the Kenworth I recreated nearly all meshes and now have decent materails fitted, It shows a huge improvement, they still have too many vertices, in my test game that's not yet a problem.

Whilst modding the truck, some more variants and new trailers are now created on the side.

I'll share some screenshots of these containing a NewZealand version (Calder&Steward), a heavy haulage tracktor (Stoof/Mammoet), a new simple flatbed that's based on a Herpa HO scale model, loaded with truck cabs. And a new US petrolium tanker (only after I finished it I found the mod containing the standard US trailers...).

Cheers, Gruss,

Oh and some more news, the Huey is of course not forgotten, it's just parked for the moment.

To facilitate it at least a military airfield should be there, and that must have some vehicles.

I found some models in my archive (downloaded some day in the past), to start with the fire department.
And fire department needs is water and a fire. For the water I'm almost done, I modded an industry producing a new goods Water in the Industry diversity mod and models to provide the water for different levels of the industry. Level 1 is a manual well, level 2 is a simple wooden water tower, on level 3 it gets more interesting with a watertower inspired by a real one from Haltingen in Germany (or actually the Faller H0-scale model of it), the last level is more simple but impessive as is and is based on Belcrum watertower in Breda the Netherlands.

But has anyone already tried making a (large) fire in the game? Some tips and tricks for that might be needed.

The fire trucks look indeed like the old Roco models did, but they are downloads from the web, I had them stored as cubus_faun3000 resp. _faun3500, _faun8000. The MB G is a GD250 Wolf ELW version I can´t track when I downloaded that. With a few changes on the meshes to free the wheels and lights they seem to work. Also little changes on the maps I had were needed so far. But the mod needs some tuning still, I see some elements are missing and the wheels, due to the material being somewhat shaded, seem to be misaligned a bit while driving.

But if I can resolve the issues I´ll see if they can be shared.

Thank you SD70M .

I'm almost done with a stand-alone of my level3 watertower. That I'll make available in a bit (for alpha testing), my test only show one error "texture load error: file name empty", but as I read on the forum that should not matter.

Hmmm, I'm creating animations for doors open and close of the crash-tenders, they are really cool. However the material of my water column looks more like concrete.

Any body got advice?